D800 Bluetooth

[Michael Simpson]

On 4/8/08, Aristotelis Mikropoulos <amikrop at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I use Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on a Dell Latitude D800. The problem is that
> I can't use bluetooth.
> When I enter BIOS I can see "Onboard Bluetooth: Not Installed" but there is
> no option to enable it.
> I haven't found any switch or key combination to turn bluetooth on, neither
> have I managed to enable
> it through some software application. Can you help me, please? Is it a
> firmware issue? UNIX tools
> as hdd don't even recognize the onboard bluetooth, so I think its hardware
> device is disabled.
> Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks a lot, in advance.
>

Hi there

It might not be installed judging that your bios is stating that it
isn't installed.
Wonderful thing about Dell laptops is that you can have a peek without
needing to be an octopus to put them back together again.

Check out if you have the actual hardware in place:

<http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latd800/sm_en/blue.htm#1000550>

hth

mike